Microsoft may be banned from EU area public contracts

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Mistershine said:

ssj12 said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Microsoft won't be banned from the EU. They need Microsoft too much.

Every time the EU gets into financial difficulty, they b*tchslap Microsoft with another million dollar fine. If Microsoft stopped doing business there, not only would it hurt the economies of all countries with companies that depend on Microsoft products but the EU would lose a major source of revenue.

no they dont, Apple can support schools just as well. Plus EEE PCs that run Linux are cheap.

The proble is that the majority of curriculum software is win32 based.

Time to introduce people to wine!
I wonder how much of the software would run that way. Stuff that requires external hardware peripherals would not work so well, but isn't the majority of educational software fairly simple? (complexity wise?)

 

I also got a chuckle out of the comment about "funding" new OS's.  Modern operating systems (Unix, Linux, BSD, etc) are free! (for the most part, unless you want extra support)